Note: python-oletools is not related to OLETools published by BeCubed Software.

News

2015-02-08 v0.08: olevba can now decode strings obfuscated with Hex/StrReverse/Base64/Dridex and extract IOCs. Added new triage mode, support for non-western codepages with olefile 0.42, improved API and display, several bugfixes.

2015-01-05 v0.07: improved olevba to detect suspicious keywords and IOCs in VBA macros, can now scan several files and open password-protected zip archives, added a Python API, upgraded OleFileIO_PL to olefile v0.41

pyxswf: a tool to detect, extract and analyze Flash objects (SWF) that may be embedded in files such as MS Office documents (e.g. Word, Excel) and RTF, which is especially useful for malware analysis. pyxswf is an extension of xxxswf.py published by Alexander Hanel.

rtfobj: a tool and python module to extract embedded objects from RTF files.

and a few others (coming soon)

Download and Install:

To use python-oletools from the command line as analysis tools, you may simply download the zip archive and extract the files in the directory of your choice.

If you plan to use python-oletools with other Python applications or your own scripts, then the simplest solution is to use "pip install oletools" or "easy_install oletools" to download and install in one go (pip install -U oletools to update). Otherwise you may download/extract the zip archive and run "setup.py install".

Documentation:

The latest version of the documentation can be found online, otherwise a copy is provided in the doc subfolder of the package.

How to Suggest Improvements, Report Issues or Contribute:

This is a personal open-source project, developed on my spare time. Any contribution, suggestion, feedback or bug report is welcome.

To suggest improvements, report a bug or any issue, please use the issue reporting page, providing all the information and files to reproduce the problem.

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